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Mark your calendars: Latest SVS peer support call coming up
Vascular surgeons are being encouraged to join the Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Wellness Task Force, fellow SVS members and SurgeonMasters on May 28 at 7 p.m. EST, 6 p.m. CST, 5 p.m. MST, 4 p.m. PST for the latest…
VIVA Physicians publishes analysis evaluating mortality and paclitaxel-coated devices
An individual patient-level data (IPD) analysis of the safety of paclitaxel-containing devices (PTXD), conducted by VIVA Physicians, identified an absolute 4.6% increased mortality risk associated with PTXD use. The analysis, based on the most complete available data set of mortality…
Registry launches pair of studies on vascular complications related to COVID-19
The new Vascular Surgery COVID-19 Collaborative (VASCC) is ready to start collecting data on two projects. The first study to emerge from the international registry, entitled “Impact of COVID-19 on scheduled vascular operations,” covers five major areas of vascular practice…
Terumo Aortic gains FDA approval for Treo endovascular device
Terumo Aortic has been granted Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the Treo abdominal aortic stent-graft system to be sold in the U.S. The Treo, used in the treatment of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), is the only…
Report: Safely executing CEA during COVID-19
A carotid endarterectomy (CEA) carried out on a 71-year-old stroke patient who tested positive for COVID-19 is highlighted in a recent case report as an example of the procedure’s safe execution under the strains of the pandemic. Tej M. Singh, MD,…
COVER study aims to capture impact of COVID-19 on global vascular surgery
The COVID-19 vascular service (COVER) study, a multinational, prospective, observational study that is aimed at capturing the impact of the pandemic on global vascular surgery, has gained ethical approval in the U.K. and is now recruiting worldwide. An international Vascular…
SVS ONLINE: Carving out virtual version of VAM invited sessions amid COVID-19
As Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) Postgraduate Education Committee chair Vikram Kashyap, MD, tells it, the organizers behind programming for the Vascular Annual Meeting (VAM) had never before been confronted with such a mammoth task. Like it did in all…
Dispatches from the vascular front: A vascular nursing perspective in times of COVID-19
For almost the first month after COVID-19 hit New Orleans with a vengeance, vascular nurse Jayme Boudreaux, APRN, found herself largely stuck at home, desperate to redeploy in anyway she could to do her bit to help stop the virus…
Dispatches from the vascular front: Embracing telemedicine in COVID-19 era
DALLAS—William P. Shutze, MD, has not long since finished his day’s practice—a shift in which he carried out somewhere in the region of 13 televisits. This is a new era for life in general as the world struggles to adjust…
Medical care in time of coronavirus: Handling patients without COVID-19
The patient was thin, pale and clearly frightened, although he tried not to show it. With poor English skills, he patiently sat on the examining table trying to understand what I was saying. His wife and two small children sat…